[Leica] Unusual Freeze Damage

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Lots of beech and poplar trees in my area also were hit pretty hard.
In addition to the earlier big freeze, just this past week we had frost a 
couple of mornings. They were light frosts, but unusual [to me] for this 
late into April.
I'm a few miles west of Nashville, always a bit cooler here.
Doug: I hope you're right about the bugs. A cold winter doesn't seem to 
affect them, but maybe a late freeze like this will do the trick.
GaryP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Unusual Freeze Damage


> Most of what a big freeze does is kill off the year's crop of
> insects.  I expect that in a few years' time you'll have abundant new
> tree growth dating from the big freeze when there were no insects to
> destroy the seedlings.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
> On Apr 22, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Don Dory wrote:
>
> > Tina,
> > You know you can't kill a fig tree.  Cut it down at the base and
> > you will
> > have figs in three years.  As to the old hickory trees, they will
> > be back;
> > they didn't get to be old trees by not weathering a few snap
> > freezes over
> > 100 years.
> >
> > On 4/22/07, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> At 10:22 PM 4/21/2007, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >In my 77 years, I have never seen this situation before.  In
> >> >Tennessee, the governor is trying to see if he can get disaster aid
> >> >for the farmers and fruit growers, and I have heard that the
> >> >situation is similar in the Carolinas.
> >> >
> >> >Jim Nichols
> >> >Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >> Yes, it is a disaster here in the Carolinas.  100% of the peach crop
> >> is gone.  At my farm we lost peaches, apples, figs, pears - I don't
> >> know if any of them will come back.  The fig bushes - some as big as
> >> a house - look totally dead. My Japanese maple, which was beautiful
> >> with spring leaves, now has dead tags hanging all over the
> >> tree.  Huge hickory trees in the forest are totally brown. There is a
> >> big peach orchard just up the road and I talked to the woman there
> >> who said they lost every single tree.  There will be no South
> >> Carolina peaches this year. :-(
> >>
> >> Tina
> >>
> >> Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA
> >> http://www.tinamanley.com
> >>
> >>
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> > -- 
> > Don
> > don.dory@gmail.com
> >
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